Is there a consesus on how to get Mandrake 7.1 + Voodoo3 + Quake3 (or
similar app)?
I have read the last few e-mails and there seems to be some confusion.
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>You need the Glide module from the contribs rather than the mainline,
>the XFree glide module contains the video driver for the older Voodoo
>cards, not the Voodoo3. The Glide stuff in contribs supplys the glide
>library for general apps.
>
>John
>
>Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just my final report about using the acceleration with a voodoo3 under
> > XFree4.
> >
> > First word: it's not quicker than under XFree-3.3.6
> >
> > . I used the tip provided by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to compile the
>tdfx
> > kernel module. (I'll have to see with fredl and chmou with which package
> > we can provide this module) Some warnings at the compile time but the
> > compile went fine, the modprobe also.
> >
> > . the good resource is there:
>http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html
> >
> > . I used Xfree86-libs-4.0-6mdk for the libGL stuff
> >
> > . I used Mesa-common-3.2-4mdk for the libGLU and libglut stuff
> >
> > . I used XFree86-glide-module-4.0-6mdk for the dri module (the 4.0.1 is
>no
> > more working AFAIK; fred working on it)
> >
> > . misc point: I had a message with grDRIsomething missing when trying to
> > load any program. Yoann help me: it was a problem with Glide_V3 library;
> > we have to use the Glide_V3-DRI instead (worked for me prepending a
> > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libglide3x.so.2 to the programs)
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Cottenceau
>
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